Mark Hoppus (Plus 44) has posted an update regarding the recording of the band's new album.

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for everyone like me who has been wondering what’s going on with the +44’s, here’s the deal. this whole time we’ve been continuing to write and demo ideas on our own. the only thing is we’ve been waiting for the label to fund the recording, and this just came through. i understand everyone wondering what’s the deal, and believe me a lot has happened that i haven’t posted the minutia of. do you like how i ended that last sentence in a preposition? in any case, all is good. we’re just guys writing songs. but we’re gonna flip it this time around. now just for fun i’m going to really confuse the...

We are VERY pleased to tell you all that we are currently in the middle of preproduction for our brand new record! We are over here in Los Angeles with Mr. Mark Weinberg at the helm who just did Ace Enders’ new record a few months back. We are really excited about how everything is turning out and can’t wait to get it to you this summer! Finally right? We also wanted to leave you with a few photos compliments of Okie himself!

This last update of SXSW 2008 comes a bit late because while, technically, I could have written this as soon as I got back in to LA on Sunday morning, it would not have been anything remotely legible. The fact that I only slept for half an hour the night before would have caused my update to become one of the worst written things you've ever seen on this website. While you might think that the last day of SXSW would be a little calmer than the rest, you'd be very wrong. In fact, everyone tries and squeeze in one last big party/bash/show the last day, and the options to choose from are more than I can count.

The problem with scheduling things at SXSW (or, rather, making a schedule that you "have" to follow) is that, inevitably, things will happen which totally screw with everything. In my case, it was A) losing my schedule somehow so I had no idea what parties/showcases were where and B) having my phone die, which totally screws everything up. Somewhere, somebody in Austin has my schedule.

In the beginning of the day, all was fine, as I went to check out Lykke Li, who is Sweden's hottest export as of now. She has this one song "Little Bit" which has been taking the industry's ears by storm and the performance was pretty spot on, although her other songs that she performed were not as...

There's a high possibility that these updates will become slightly more delirious and more filled with rambling than actual sentences in the next couple of days, as I'm sitting in bed here and running on another night of very little sleep. Just fair warning, you know. There are two things right now that are my biggest assets, and that would be the gel insoles I bought before I came (they do wonders, really) because I knew I'd be walking around a ton, and packets of Emergen-C. It's amazing what a packet of Emergen-C will do in the mornings, and I swear I'm not being sponsored by them (although if somebody from Emergen-C is currently...

Jonathan Lullo of Down to Earth Approach has been updating his AP.net blog about the recording of his latest untitled solo EP. Follow it here. Feel free to add him as a friend so you get notified of all his latest blog updates.

I'm currently in Austin, TX for SXSW and, as in the past couple years, I'm doing daily updates of the shows that I catch and things like that. Here's Day 1, with more to follow of course. Greg Dona is also in SXSW and should be doing updates as well.

This is my third year here at SXSW and things are a bit different this time - for the first time, I finally have a badge (so I can go to all of the official showcases and panels now), and I finally have a hotel room in downtown Austin. What isn't different, however, is the jampacked list of parties and shows that start even before the music portion of SXSW even officially starts, which was yesterday the 12th. My flight left LA at 6:50...

Underoath will be going into the studio next month to record the follow-up to Define the Great Line.

Message From the Band

So we're less than a month away from going into the studio! It feels just like it was yesterday when we recorded Define the Great Line. I'm having a lot of fun writing this record. It's one of our heaviest things we've ever done, and at the same time really experimental. A few months ago I felt like this record would be the least we've changed in a while. It seemed that for the first time we were going into a record we hadn't been dissatisfied with our previous effort, and therein had no predisposition toward alienating ourselves from it. I look back at Define the...

Man it's been a while since I posted on here. So much has happened since our last tour ended. As many of you may know we shot a film about our last US tour. We get to watch the first edit this week and I'm so excited! We had a three man film crew follow our bus the entire tour. They shot 70-80 hours of footage in about 6 weeks. That's like 4800 minutes! We only need 90, so the past few months have been spent sifting through each and every frame, trimming the fat and letting Ryan (director/editor) tell the story of Underoath and our tour. We also shot a live show in Philly at the Electric Factory and we're going to have a...

If you've been keeping up with our blogs on myspace and sensesfail.com, you know we've been writing and recording demos in the basement. Well, we have 8 songs completed and recorded and we are all extremely happy with them. I could sit here all day and describe what they sound like, but then I'd sound like that butt-hole who compares every part of one song to 40 different bands and music-styles. Nope, instead I'm just going to tell you that it sounds like we keep getting better at what we do: Riffs, guitar solos, vocal hooks and retarded-esque drumming.

Today at 1pm on 107.7 FM The End (in Seattle), The Presidents of the United States of America will be live to premiere the first single from their new album These Are The Good Times People. If you are outside of the Seattle area you can listen online here. Also, the band recently made a video blog regarding information about their new album which can be seen in the replies.

A little over two years ago my brother Jay started feeling sick... He thought nothing of it but after a while he realized that his condition wasn't improving and decided to consult a doctor. After some extensive tests he was informed that he had non-hodgkins lymphoma cancer. He had a tumor the size of a baseball in his lymph nodes near the pelvis area. The doctors told him his cancer was a stage 4 which is pretty bad but that this type of cancer was very treatable and that basically if you were to have cancer, this is the one you "want" since it is usually cured with...

Yellowcard has posted a myspace blog about their acoustic shows in the Middle East. You can read it below.

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This past week has been quite an experience. Sean, Mendez, and myself travelled to the Middle East to perform for our service men and women stationed there. It was 19 hours of flying each way and we just got back today. While we were there we had been scheduled to play in Kuwait the first day and then head north into Iraq for the rest of the trip. At the last minute the President came in after his visit to Israel which made it impossible to get a flight north. All of the resources there were being used for security. So we made some changes and ended up playing the bases in and...

Lostprophets have posted an update on their myspace blog. Check out the writing/recording update from the Welsh quintet below.

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Hope everyone had a good xmas and new years eve thingy. Mine was chilled. We have finished and recorded 14 songs for the album, but still have more ideas, so like i said before, us being us, have decided to write and record these. It means that the album probably wont be out till the summer, but also means that there may be better songs on it...haha. Or not though, cause the new ideas might be pants. Anyway, we are gonna write in Wales cause LA has done our heads in. We need a break from it and to get back to our roots. Male voice choirs all the way now boys.

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I'm taking to the blog today to share something with you that I feel more passionate about than I saw coming.
I want to make it short and sweet so that anybody who wants to re-print it can copy and paste without editing...

Went out to dinner Thursday night. My car. One glass of wine. Carpooled from dinner to go out to one more place. Everyone in my car. At the next spot, I do the Diet Coke with Lime thing. My favorite scotch (Lagavulin 16 year) arrives under my nose. "Can't do it," I say. Then I find out my friend has switched to Designated Driver and has a plan that...

Hey Everyone, We just got back from our Mexico and South America tour and it was amazing! We had some of the craziest show ever. We want to thank everyone in Mexico, Chile and Brazil for everything you are all so crazy and you made us feel so loved. We love all of you so much and we can't wait to come back soon. WE MISS YOU ALREADY!!!!

For our future plans we're going to start writing and recording in January-March, we will be playing a few shows during that time as well so keep your ears and eyes open. After that we will do a full U.S. and Canada tour that will start late March. Also, we have big...

Sergio from Thieves and Villains will be regularly updating the band's blog on their Buzznet page. Check out his first entry, which includes some big updates about the band and their writing process, right here.

Butch Walker has posted a blog thanking everyone who sent their wishes about his house burning down, and he is having a show on December 17 in LA at the Hotel Café to help raise money to pay for the possessions his friends lost.

This may have come as a shock to some, but it is a decision that took me more than three years to make and an extremely hard decision at that. But as you all have probably read, I have decided to move on from Senses Fail.

I am a person who always follows my heart and my gut, and have been this way most of my life. No regrets, no questions – I just get things done the best way I can and try to enjoy everything I am blessed with.

In my 25 years, with the support of my loving family, I have had the opportunity to...

As we wrap up the last few shows of our tour here in the UK and for the entire year, i am overwhelmed with a sense of fulfillment. when our band looked at 2007 we made ourselves a promise, and that promise was to play 250 shows this year. Oddly looking up now, we have (somehow) done it. I think when we made that challenge to ourselves we had absolutely NO idea how much of a difficult, challenging, growing, and incredible experience it would actually be. We had no idea how many unbelievable people and friends we would meet along the way. How many new brothers...

fueled by ramen, our record label, announced their newest signing today. phantom planet. PHANTOM FUCKING PLANET PEOPLE! how amazing is that?? this is one of my favorite bands, and i couldn’t be more excited about being on the same label as them. i was reading through a bunch of the responses to this news over at absolutepunk.net and i was quite disappointed to see how many people were bad-mouthing their self-titled release. phantom planet s/t is an...

Hello world. I know I have spent so much time away from this page, and to those of you who are still checking it regularly, thank you for your patience. It's good to be back. To be honest, the past several months have been spiritually grueling, leaving little time to process much of anything other than music and the subjects that inspire it's creation. It's been a hard fought war for the album I am now referring to as "the glass passenger" and I have been reluctant to share too many details along the way, as it has been in constant evolution. The truth is, this record came with so many possible...

According to Pete Wentz's blog, he is looking for your thoughts on the next band he should sign.

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hey you... yeah you. i realize that you know about great bands that i have never heard of waaaay before i hear them. we want to sign a new band and we need your help. if you know of someone great post about em (save the posts about oasis and motion city soundtrack- theyre great but already signed. know what i mean?)